Re: freebsd mass deployment

2009-06-19 Thread Martin Thomas
Thanks for the advice given so far, I will have a look at them. @Wojciech: Your approach seems too simplistic to me. It might only work under very specific circumstances but is impractical otherwise. Consider, for example, a network consisting of machines of different types (workstations, web

Re: freebsd mass deployment

2009-06-19 Thread Wojciech Puchar
similar for FreeBSD too. So far I only found a guide for jumpstart. simply install on one, tar it up and untar on each other, using PXE just to boot anything. Wojciech, That is true, yes, but you have not answered the OPs question. Yes i did - it is the way of doing repetitive installation

Re: freebsd mass deployment

2009-06-19 Thread Wojciech Puchar
I used SystemImager for Linux installs, and I was curious about doing something similar for FreeBSD. By chance, I ran across this today, and now I am very excited about trying it out. farbot port looks like you - as most people - like to make your life complex. unix already have all needed to

Re: freebsd mass deployment

2009-06-19 Thread Jason
I used SystemImager for Linux installs, and I was curious about doing something similar for FreeBSD. By chance, I ran across this today, and now I am very excited about trying it out. farbot port http://code.google.com/p/farbot/ -jgh On Fri, Jun 19, 2009 at 11:01:42AM +, Martin Thomas thu

Re: freebsd mass deployment

2009-06-19 Thread Odhiambo ワシントン
On Fri, Jun 19, 2009 at 4:27 PM, Wojciech Puchar < woj...@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl> wrote: > >> I'd like to install FreeBSD on a number of machines, automatically and >> unattended over Ethernet via PXE. I'm quite familiar with FAI, which does a >> great job for Debian, and I'd like to know whether

Re: freebsd mass deployment

2009-06-19 Thread Wojciech Puchar
I'd like to install FreeBSD on a number of machines, automatically and unattended over Ethernet via PXE. I'm quite familiar with FAI, which does a great job for Debian, and I'd like to know whether there is something similar for FreeBSD too. So far I only found a guide for jumpstart. simply ins

Re: freebsd mass deployment

2009-06-19 Thread Greg Larkin
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Martin Thomas wrote: > Hello list, > > I'd like to install FreeBSD on a number of machines, automatically and > unattended over Ethernet via PXE. I'm quite familiar with FAI, which does a > great job for Debian, and I'd like to know whether there is

Re: freebsd mass deployment

2009-06-19 Thread Ruben de Groot
On Fri, Jun 19, 2009 at 11:01:42AM +, Martin Thomas typed: > > Hello list, > > I'd like to install FreeBSD on a number of machines, automatically and > unattended over Ethernet via PXE. I'm quite familiar with FAI, which does a > great job for Debian, and I'd like to know whether there is s

freebsd mass deployment

2009-06-19 Thread Martin Thomas
Hello list, I'd like to install FreeBSD on a number of machines, automatically and unattended over Ethernet via PXE. I'm quite familiar with FAI, which does a great job for Debian, and I'd like to know whether there is something similar for FreeBSD too. So far I only found a guide for jumpstar